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5 euro de Village-Neuf [68]
| Issuer | Association des Sociétés Locales de Village-Neuf |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | City euro (1996-2002) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the arms of Village-Neuf, depicting a standing owl facing the viewer on a vertically lined shield. Flanking the central escutcheon are two smaller heraldic shields: that of Geaune to the lower left and that of Haagen to the lower right, each labeled with the respective community name in the field. The legend VILLAGE-NEUF arcs along the upper periphery, with the date 1996 displayed prominently at the base of the coin. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Village-Neuf sits at the tripoint where France, Germany, and Switzerland converge near Saint-Louis, and the local association issued this piece during the mid-1990s wave of French municipal and regional emergency currency revivals — part scrip, part promotional tool, part collector bait. Hundreds of communes ran similar schemes in the years before euro adoption rendered the concept both premature in name and obsolete in practice.